Post class Postmodernism V.S Modernism Tae Lim

      There are no crystal clear definition of postmodernism and modernism. However, I noticed some similarities and differences between them. They both want to set up the new trend, ideas, and era. Modernism by breaking ground of traditions and influence. what I noticed is that modernism yet still have taste and back ground of tradition, becasue of they paid too much attention being different from being traditions. Modernism is quite easier to understand in terms of visuality because it is almost direct opposite of traditions or vertical ideas of old fashion. What is very interesting is that postmodernism takes longer and deeper process to define. With the same idea I judge modernism, postmodernism should be the direct opposite or reflection of modernism. However, it is hard to define postmodernism, the reason being is that it over laps with traditions and characteristics of modernism. Postmodern arts for instance: are so hard to understand and process because it looks old but it isn't?! They both have message of inviting us to new trend and era, but I think they seems like they were created by people who did not enjoyed system they were in.

    

    We also, talk about the "Cult of the New". The cult of the new to me is a obsession created by people who love changes. There were many examples of cult of new we discussed in class. For example; myspace, phones, clothes, ect. I, like most people, am living and loving the cult of new. Yet I started to wonder is it always positive ? Everything is so moving quickly, and consumed so quickly people watching, understanding what other people are doing. It is good to have those advantage, but to me it scares me a bit. I am a firm believer of everyone is different and they have thier own level of happiness. However, t is so difficult to train ourself with developing our own happiness, especially when we see people better looking, richer, taller, stronger, younger, older, bigger, smaller, ect. I always dreamed and thought about old style of relationship. These days people consume so much information about people and takes so much lesser time to judge people. If we consumed a lot of information about something, we should take longer time and deeper consideration to judge it.

 Organic products and food might be one of cult of the new. Most people did not cared about the organic before, now people are obsessed with organic products. Sometimes the meaning of organic is misunderstood by new trend. I saw organic gummy bears in stores, and some of them were over twenty six dollars. It just did not feel right.